Supervision of not yet completed Ph.D. grants

Eight
Ph.D. students are currently developing their research projects, two of
them in the company CIPAN and one of them is a co-supervision within a
collaboration established with the Universidade do Algarve.

The Ph.Ds that are currently supervised and co-supervised are listed below:

1. Ana Marta de Jesus Gomes de Matos, From
a multitarget antidiabetic glycosyl isoflavone towards new molecular
entities against diabetes and Alzheimer's disease: generation of lead
series and target assessment, SFRH/BD/93170/2013, supervised by
Prof. Amélia Pilar Rauter, co-supervised by Prof. Paula de Macedo
(Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Lisboa).

4. João Pedro de Almeida Pais, Development of new anibiotics efficient against Bacillus anthracis,
SFRH/BDE/51957/2012, Ph. D. in company (CIPAN)supervised by Prof.
Amélia Pilar Rauter and co-supervised by Dr. Dália Barbosa (CIPAN) and
by Dr. Ricardo Dias (BIOFIG, FCUL).

5. Ana Rita Xavier de Jesus, Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporters Sugar-Based Inhibitors for the Treatment of Diabetes,
SFRH/BD/78236/2011, supervised by Prof. Amélia Pilar Rauter and
co-supervised by Prof. Jian Liu (School of Pharmacy, The University of
North Carolina at Chaper Hill), and by Prof. Timothy Dore (New York
University ABU DHABI).

6. "Study of agronomic production of Salvia species and evaluation
of their components for the potential control of the Alzheimer
disease", Maria Filipa Vinagre Marques da Silva,
co-supervisão de Prof. Jorge Justino, Instituto
Polit&eacutecnico de Santar&eacutem, bolsa do projecto
PTDC/AGR-AAM/66414/2006 (2006-2007).